Power Quotes
A friend of mine enjoys sending me quotes of the day through email. I have decided to share them here. I will post them daily as she sends them. There are times she misses a day or two, but I will do my best to keep this updated often.
It has been awhile since I have received any new quotes from my friend. I’ve subscribed to some quote of the day emails, but so far, no emails have come. I’m asking for YOUR help! If you have some great inspirational quotes, feel free to post them in the comments here! 
Shades of Pink
Laura
Pink Biz
Stumble It!
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
but two things stand like stone,
kindness in another’s trouble and
courage in your own.
Princess Diana
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Channing Pollock
There are no mistakes, only lessons.
When there’s something you need to do, something you know you have to do, you probably resent it and fight against it, and think up excuses for not doing it. It may very well end up not ever getting done. By contrast, when there’s something you want to do, you’ll be busy thinking up all sorts of great reasons why you should do it, and you’ll do whatever is necessary to get it done. That’s a big, big difference.
There’s a fine, but very important, line between the things you need to do and the things you want to do. That line exists in your mind and is controlled by your attitude. And guess who is in control of your attitude? You are!
With a simple change in attitude, all those things you need to do, all those things you have to do, can instantly become things you want to do. When that happens, they’ll get done.
So what do you need to do that you really don’t want to do? Have you been putting it off? Have you been busy thinking up excuses for not taking action? Well, do you want to move your life forward? Then try this simple exercise. Whatever it is you’ve been putting off, whatever it is you’ve been avoiding, tell yourself you want to do it. Instead of saying “I have to” in your mind, say “I want to” out loud. It’s as simple as that.
When you starting thinking of it as something you want to do, it will get done. And what a powerful difference that can make in your life!
Ralph Marston
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and use establish the life you experience.
Sonia Croquette
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possiblity.
Oprah Winfrey
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The more you see yourself as needing anything, the less you’re able to enjoy it. So let go of the need and allow the enjoyment to happen.
Do you need to go to work today, or do you enjoy the opportunity to create value and to make a difference? It all depends on how you look at it. See your effort strictly as a need and it takes on the qualities of a burden. See that effort as a choice, a pleasure, a privilege, and you raise it to a whole new level of effectiveness.
Do you see yourself as needing a certain level of income, or status, or wealth, or power before you can be happy? Let go of the need, let go of the conditions you’ve imposed upon your happiness and allow the enjoyment to begin.
The more you can allow yourself to enjoy, the more there will be to enjoy. Enjoy the simple as well as the profound, the plain as well as the beautiful, the calm as well as the exciting.
Life’s richness comes not from how much you have, but from how little you need. Let go of the need to need so much, and let more enjoyment into every moment.
Ralph Marston
It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
President Theodore Roosevelt
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
William Arthur Ward
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you’ll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Goethe
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
The big, serious problems have a way of quickly and powerfully commanding your attention. As a result you’ll usually get busy and do something about them.
But the little, nagging, everyday problems don’t usually come with that same sense of urgency. And because of that, those little problems can often be the most destructive. They’re the ones that seem too trivial to tackle, so they continue to take their toll, day after day. Over time, they can drain more and more of your energy away, a little more each day.
Those little nagging problems don’t take much effort to solve. It’s mostly just a matter of taking the time to do it. There’s something you can do today that will completely eliminate one of them. And then tomorrow you can get rid of another one. Free yourself from those little, draining problems, one by one. As you do, your energy level and effectiveness will truly start to soar.
Ralph Marston
If I accept you as you are,
I will make you worse;
however if I treat you as though you are
what you are capable of becoming,
I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, BEGIN IT.
Boldness has genius, magic and power in it.
BEGIN IT NOW.
Goethe
It takes as much energy to wish
as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Is there something you know you need to do, but you just don’t feel like it? If so, you can either avoid it altogether or you can force yourself to do it even though it goes against your feelings.
But there’s a much less stressful, much more elegant, effective way. You can simply change your feelings on the matter.
After all, they are your feelings and they’re under your control. And a great way to take control of those feelings is by putting them into words. For example, I feel like waking up a half hour earlier tomorrow morning and taking a walk. Or, I feel like swimming fifty laps this afternoon.
It seems deceptively simple, yet it works. You can change the way you feel just by saying so. Repeat it silently to yourself with enthusiasm, or say it out loud to yourself, or even better, to someone else. Then watch your actual feelings fall solidly and authentically in line.
If you don’t feel like it, that’s no problem because that’s something you can easily change. Start saying you feel like it and before long, you will.
Ralph Marston
Why would you ever want to get even with someone who has wronged you? By very definition, getting even would mean lowering yourself to that person’s level, and what would be the value of that?
In fact, there is no value in getting even. Any attempts to do so simply perpetuate and increase the harm that has already been done.
Instead of putting your time, your energy, and your resources into getting even, put them into moving beyond and moving ahead. For wouldn’t you rather be getting ahead than merely getting even?
If your efforts are wrapped up in getting even, you’re allowing your life to be controlled by those who have harmed you. That’s certainly not what you want.
Forget about getting even, and put your focus on moving steadily and confidently ahead. That will put you in a far better position than you could ever hope to reach by merely getting even.
Ralph Marston
Throughout the years of your life you will face many challenges,
remember that you can climb the highest mountain, drive through the
roughest storm, soar across the bluest sky, or even sail across the
roughest waters. It is only destined by your attitude where you will end
up in life. The most important thing is don’t let yourself get lost in
the crowd.
Angela Duvall
You will make more friends in a week
by getting yourself interested in other people
than you can in a year
by trying to get other people interested in you.
Arnold Bennett
To me, old age is
15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch
So what do we do? Anything - something.
So long as we don’t just sit there.
If we screw it up, start over.
Try something else.
If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.
Your words are the greatest power you have.
The words you choose and the use establish the life you experience.
Sonia Croquette
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.
Tommy Lasorda
Your first impression of any particular challenge is almost always bigger and more formidable than the challenge itself. The closer you get to a problem, the less imposing it becomes.
From a long way off, trouble can seem big and intimidating. But when you walk right up and go to work on it, the trouble will begin to yield more quickly than you would have imagined. Getting face to face with trouble may not be all that pleasant, yet you’ll be far better off than if you had turned and run away. The more willingly and eagerly you take on the challenge, the more manageable it becomes.
If an obstacle seems completely insurmountable, it’s probably because you don’t know all there is to know about it. Get up close to that obstacle, start working on it, and you’ll be able to see a way around it, or over it, or under it or through.
The faster and more confidently you walk right up to your troubles and face them, the sooner they will begin to get out of the way.
Ralph Marston
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking
we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Better to be poor and walk in integrity
than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.
Proverbs 28:6-6
Rather than become a man of success, become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
When plans are laid in advance,
it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them.
Sir William Osler, physician
Make sure that your actions and behaviors live up to and reflect the words and ideas, promises and commitments that come out of your mouth.
Steve Farber
Most of the limitations you experience are largely defined, supported and given energy by your own perceptions. Change those perceptions, genuinely raise your expectations, and the limitations will begin to melt away.
The experience of limitation is only one way, out of many possible ways you have, for relating to a particular situation. You are always free to make another choice, to relate to your circumstances in a more positive, empowering way.
Though one approach may be blocked, it is only one of many possible approaches. Limitations are always finite, yet the number of positive possibilities is unlimited.
Whatever is holding you back is doing so because you have accepted it as something that’s holding you back. Imagine what would happen if you accepted, with just as much certainty, the very real possibility of moving forward.
Are you looking at the world through the fog of limitation or are you seeing the bright, shining clarity of your best possibilities? The way you choose to perceive where you are can make a world of difference in where you end up going.
Ralph Marston
Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come;
do not vainly regret what is already past.
Chinese proverb
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Harvey MacKay
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by
people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and
probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in
hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded
will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing,
asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel H. Burnham
Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you!
William H. Danforth
Founder of Ralston Purina
Find the good. It’s all around you.
Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens
1913-1980, Gold Medal Olympic Track Athlete
Step by step.
I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything.
Michael Jordan
Do you truly believe in the value of your own pursuits? If so, there’s not much that will be able to stop you. If not, why are you wasting your precious time on them?
Belief in what you’re doing will make you vastly more enthusiastic, resourceful and effective. It will let you see valuable opportunities where others just see annoying problems. Your belief will enable you to persevere through the difficult times and grow stronger in the face of challenges.
Perhaps you think that doing what you believe in is a luxury you cannot afford. After all, the bills do have to be paid.
Yes, indeed, the bills must be paid. And the very best way to do that is by putting your efforts where they will create the most value. If you don’t believe in what you’re doing at the moment, then map out a plan that will take you from where you are right now to where you can truly believe in what you’re doing. Once you make that connection, even though nothing else has changed, you’ve suddenly added the power of belief to your efforts.
Believe in what you’re doing. Believe in where you’re going. You can find a way. Find it, hold on to it, and be unstoppable.
Ralph Marston
And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.
1 Timothy 5:14
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be
credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
In any moment of decision, The best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but
not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be
humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but
without folly.
Jim Rohn
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for
themselves. (founder, McDonalds Corporation)
Ray Kroc
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet withsuccess unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life.
Dr.David M. Burns
He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.
Floyd V. Filson
When a problem comes along, the natural reaction is to fight against it. But that kind of response just throws more negative energy on an already difficult situation.
A more positive response is to welcome the problem. See it for what it is, and welcome it into your life. By doing so, you immediately take control. You give yourself the upper hand. You’re not simply reacting against the problem, you’re taking action to deal with it.
If you fight against a problem, it will get you down. By contrast, when you welcome the problem, you put yourself in a much better position to turn it into an opportunity. You demonstrate that you have the confidence to deal with the problem. You open your eyes to the positive possibilities.
When you’re faced with a problem, rather than fighting and lashing out against it, acknowledge and welcome it. That puts you in control and keeps you moving positively forward.
Ralph Marston
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you’re under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.”
Rubel Shelly
Preacher, Educator and Author
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward
are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
Maxwell Maltz
It doesn’t really matter what you desire to achieve. The thing that truly makes a difference is what you’re willing to do to reach that desired achievement. Your willingness to do what is necessary makes the critical difference between merely wishing and actually making it happen. The strength of your desire matters only to the degree that it motivates you to take action.
If every wish was immediately and completely fulfilled, with no effort whatsoever, imagine how tiresome that would soon become. Think of how completely unfulfilling such a life would be.
The real value of any achievement depends on the challenges that must be overcome to reach that achievement. To shortcut the process, even if it was possible, would leave you feeling empty and cheated.
What a blessing it is that achievement requires effort, and that significant achievement requires significant, dedicated effort. The necessity of making it happen is what brings the possibility of making it great, and valuable, and truly magnificent.
Ralph Marston
Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
Cynthia Kersey
Author of Unstoppable Women
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
James Allen
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
Mike Murdock
Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.
Lawrence LeShan
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
Sometimes it seems that whatever you do, you simply cannot seem to get ahead. Time after time you make the effort, and the results just do not come. What you need is a breakthrough.
A breakthrough will come when you’ve truly convinced yourself that you’re ready for it. Take a piece of paper and write down, clearly and in detail, the following things - what you’re attempting to accomplish, what you’ve done so far, why it hasn’t produced the results you’re after, and what obstacles still stand in your way.
When you’re finished, carefully read through everything. At the bottom of the page, write a deadline such as “I need a breakthrough by Wednesday afternoon.” Then fold the paper in two and put it away. Put the whole matter completely out of your mind. Don’t worry about it. Don’t go over it again in your mind. Relax with the confident knowledge that by the time your deadline arrives, you’ll have your breakthrough.
And you will. When it comes, accept it and get to work on putting it into action. When you’ve truly made a commitment, and when you’ve backed up that commitment with action and persistence, you’ll find a way to make it work. Your mind is easily capable of breakthrough thinking. All you have to do is ask.
Ralph Marston
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Mario Andretti
Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is, instead, a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the (pricker)bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap.
Dorothy Corkville Briggs
Success is not a native of any nation, neither is it related to any family. So, you don’t have an excuse not to leave the imprint of impact of the sand of time before your time is over on this planet.
Akin A Awolaja
Educator
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
Be a life long or short,
its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
A real friend is one who
walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
Imagine a sparkling, blue sea, filled with life and color and beauty. Now think for a moment about how you can most fully experience it.
If you try to take it for yourself and keep what you have taken for yourself and no one else, all you end up with is a bucket of salty water. Yet when you let go of your need to possess, and dive in, immersing yourself in the sea and giving yourself to it, then you fully experience its magnificence.
Similarly, when you try to take from life and hoard a small bucket of it for yourself, whatever you get is not really worth having. It is when you dive in and give of yourself that you experience the real meaning and beauty of being alive.
Life is simply too grand and too magnificent for you ever to be able to take anything away from it. You can never take away and keep for yourself anything more than a mere token. When you really give is when you really live.
Ralph Marston
Power Quotes are BACK! Yea!!
Rise above the storm
and you will find the sunshine.
Mario Fernandez
A strong sense of purpose will keep you going strong when all else fails. Following a clear and meaningful purpose will gather all your energy together and point it effectively in a single direction.
Living, thinking and acting with purpose frees you from the tyranny of haphazard circumstances. Purpose brings you strength to rise above the distractions of the moment, and the will to overcome whatever obstacles stand in your way.
The level of your achievement will rise to meet the level of your purpose. If your mission is just to get through the day, that’s probably about the extent of what you’ll do.
Yet when you take on a mission that is more grand, more meaningful, more purposeful, that purpose will pull you along with it. Those people who are strongest indeed are those who have the strongest purpose moving them forward.
Make the commitment to live out the highest possibilities available to you, today and every day. Make your purpose strong and worthy of the capable and worthy person you are.
Ralph Marston
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them.
Albert Einstein
Life always has its problems, but is that any reason to stop living it as fully as you possibly can? Things are never perfect, but is that any reason to be less than the best you can be?
Life is calling you today, calling you to live its richness. What are you waiting for? Now is a moment that’s like no other. Sure, it has its challenges and problems, yet it also has so very much more.
Life is calling you today, calling you to make a difference. All that you’ve learned, all that you’ve experienced, all that you are has the magnificent opportunity to be put to positive, productive use today.
Even when the troubles cause you despair and dismay, keep in mind what is really going on. Life is simply calling you, calling you to make it better. And that’s something you know full well that you can do.
Ralph Marston
Any mans life will be filled
with constant and unexpected encouragement
if he makes up his mind
to do his level best each day.
Booker T. Washington
Things don’t go wrong and break your heart
so you can become bitter and give up.
They happen to break you down and build you up
so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Charles Jones
Things are not happening to you.
Things are happening because of you.
Anonymous
One realizes the full importance of time
only when there is little left of it.
Every man’s greatest capital asset
is his unexpired years of productive life.
P.W. Litchfield
Your job today is to change the world, and to do it in your own special way. Your job today is to move the world closer to the best it can be by pushing yourself toward the best you can be.
The world will be different at the end of the day because of the way you have lived. The world will change during this day because of the thoughts you have focused upon and the actions you have taken.
There is no one else who can do your job for you. There is no one else who can give to life the unique value that you’re able to give.
It is an awesome responsibility and a magnificent opportunity. For the more you give of yourself, the more life will resemble the best vision you have for it.
That is your job today, to give the best of what you have and to truly make life better for the effort. Do that job well, and the rewards will be rich indeed.
Ralph Marston
A thought for today:
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that
nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
::: Oprah Winfrey :::
Look around you. Who are the people in whom you have the most confidence? It is usually those who are relaxed and confident enough to smile regularly. When the boss smiles, everyone feels better. Give everyone a break and smile.
George Hathaway
“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.”
Richard M. DeVos
What does it take to have the focus required to be a truly effective leader? The keys are priorities and concentration. A leader who knows his priorities but lacks concentration knows what to do but never gets it done. If he has concentration but no priorities, he has excellence without progress. But when he harnesses both, he has the potential to achieve great things.
John C. Maxwell
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
Most women experience the five senses in much the same way, but when it comes to a woman’s intuition - hers, yours, and mine may differ. Whether your intuition expresses itself in goose bumps, a sudden visualization or just a knowing lift of the eyebrow, after this sense has been tripped enough times, you learn to trust it.
Mary Kay Ash
The more emotionally connected you become to what you don’t want, the more of it you’ll have. And the more emotionally connected you become to what you do want in your life, the more of it you’ll have.
If you worry and fret and get upset over your problems, those problems will grow stronger as they feed on your intense emotional energy. But imagine what would happen if you took that energy away from your problems, and gave it to your most treasured desires.
Think about what you don’t want, but only long enough to figure out what you do want. Then give the power of your emotions over to the best of your positive possibilities. In your mind, feel what it will feel like when those goals become a reality. Experience the excitement, the satisfaction and the feeling of fulfillment.
Emotions feel powerful, and that’s because they are powerful. On a deep and undeniable level, they influence your physiology, your attitude, your actions and your effectiveness. Get the power of your emotions working in your favor by keeping them aligned with your most positive dreams, goals and desires.
Ralph Marston
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when
you find it.
::: Steve Jobs :::
The past couple of days have provided me with some excellent quotes from Mary Kay Ash. I use the perpetual calendar with her daily quotes:
“All during my years of management, I lived on my personal sales, and my commission checks went into savings. Had this not been done, there is a good possibility that our Company would not exist today. Early in my childhood I learned that saving was an important facet of life for peace of mind and security.”
“To qualify as your mentor, a woman must already have done what you wish to accomplish. It’s always easier to ask someone you know to be your mentor, but you might be surprised by how receptive a stranger can be. You just need a little humility to ask for help.”
Belief in success is the one basic and absolutely
essential ingredient in successful people.
Believe you can succeed and you will.
Disbelief is a negative power.
Think doubt and fall.
THINK VICTORY AND SUCCEED.
Belief is the thermostat that regulates what we accomplish in life.
A person is only the product of her own thoughts.
Believe big and grow big.
Mary Kay Ash
God always intervenes when you put His agenda before yours and go for it!
Bruce Wilkerson
The Prayer of Jabez
You will find that success in life comes far easier when you maintain a cool head and a warm heart, rather than a hot head and cold feet.
Robert Griffin
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Charles Gordy
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Beauty is a reflection of all life’s moments–joy, sorrow, love. It begins inside long before it shows itself on the surface.
Dayle Haddon
If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you,
every moment becomes a prayer.
Frank Bianco
If I had thought about it, I would not have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said it can’t be done.
Spencer Silver
Inventor of the adhesive used on Post it notes.
Look at a day when you are extremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.
Margaret Thatcher
Two parts of my life came together when I found out that acting could be a form of prayer. Now, I offer my performances as prayers for someone I have worked with or someone who has died.
I walk to the stage, and I offer that performance up for that person.
Liam Neeson
ACTOR
I’ve been feeling down and out lately and haven’t been working my business much at all. I’m the first to admit that I don’t do as much as I could. I happened to sit down at my desk tonight and read the quote of the day from my desk calendar and it really is relevant to how I’m feeling and it gives me some renewed hope:
“A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage. So, if you become discouraged, and we all dod sometimes, will you become cynical and despondent? Will ou rush around with no real purpose or plan? Or will you recover your courage as quickly as possible and do what must be done?”~Mary Kay Ash
It spoke to me because I have been all of the above lately: discouraged, cynical, despondent; rushing around with no real plan or purpose. I need to get over my fears and just do what needs to be done. Now why can’t I just do that?
Shades…I have been feeling that way too. I know that we have to get on track it is the getting that has been the problem. And then you know sometimes I just think should I continue and then I get the answer and someone will call and order. You know it is fear that keeps us from doing things. The thing here is that if we just get over the fear you know they can’t take anything away from us. What I mean by that is that are we afraid that they will reject us because most don’t want to be rejected.
I truly believe that if we believe in this product and we are not pushy we can do this. I know that it is easy and usually when people put on the makeup they love it. We just have to make a plan. I was listening to John Hagee yesterday he is a preacher and he was saying that we sit and think of the things that we need to do and we know that is what we need to do however don’t do it we will be in the same place that we are at this time next year. He said to take that leap of faith and just do it. Just get out there and do something. When there is a desire in your heart you need to act. So…I have been praying about it and it is time to start acting and start asking for those bookings. I really need to get it going and start making that good income so that I can get out from behind the chair at my shop. I have a bumm shoulder and it has been increasingly getting worse.
Shades we both know that this can work we need a plan and we need to work the plan. We need to stop looking at the at the negatives and get on the postivie and stay there. I know it is hard however I believe that is what has to be done. I think that it would be wonderful to be able just to work this business. Well I will step off my soap box. You have a GREAT DAY.
Bren
Thanks, Bren. Those are wise words. I know what I need to do and I just have to take a deep breath and get on the phone. I have leads just waiting to be called. I just need to do it! Thank you so much for your encouragement.
I know you can do it, too. This blog does help me stay accountable and I have all of you out there to help with my online support system. 
Thank you all!
I think we all go through this! I used that quote as the inspirational saying at the end of my unit meeting on Tuesday and one of the guests really was touched by it~~she is considering a career change (to MK)!
Thanks, SkinCareMom.
Glad to hear about the possibility of a new unit member, too. The quote was Tuesday’s quote from the perpetual calendar. I was just a day late changing it. 
Guess it was meant to be that way because I happened to read it at just the precise moment I needed to see it. 
Hee Hee me too! I use the perpetual calendar to choose the ending inspiration for my meetings every week and love that I can use “any” day’s quote
The greatest good you can do for another
is not just to share your riches,
but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, Former British Prime Minister
Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two things stand like stone,
kindness in another’s trouble and courage in your own.
Princess Diana
STEP BY STEP.
I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything.
Michael Jordan
People begin to become successful the minute they DECIDE TO BE.
Harvey MacKay
Make sure that your actions and behaviors live up to and reflect the words, ideas, promises and commitments that come out of your mouth.
Steve Farber
How monotonous the sounds of the forest would
be if the music came only from the
Top Ten birds.
Dan Bennett
No matter what your past has been,
you have a spotless future.
Anonymous
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Mario Andretti
Auto Racer
By the end of this day, your most difficult problem can be well on its way to being solved. By the end of this day, your most treasured dream can be well on its way to being reached. On this day and in this moment you have everything you need to begin moving forward. Make full and positive use of this day, and there is no limit on where it can lead.
You have this day, and it is more than enough. There is no one who has more possibilities waiting to be fulfilled than you have on this very day. You can choose to make full use of this day or you can choose to let it slip quickly away. You can choose to merely endure this day or you can decide to truly live it for everything it’s worth.
You have this day and you have all the great and wonderful possibilities that come along with it. Begin right now to transform it all into something of true and lasting value.
Ralph Marston
The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return–100-fold.
Only sow that which you wish to receive in return.
Sow good, receive good!
Plant seeds daily.
Mary Kay Ash
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t
make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics.
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
::: Mary Kay Ash :::
Make positive affirmations a way of life!
Act as if you already have the characteristics that you desire,
and you will have them.
Act successful! And you’ll draw it to you!
Get rid of words like, “I can’t… but… what if, ”
and exchange them for
“I can. I will. Iam in the process of becoming.”
Mary Kay Ash
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat
you as though you are what you are capable of becoming,
I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius,magic and power in it.
Begin it now.
Goethe
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, theconclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
The years teach what the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will make more friends in a week
by getting yourself interested in
other people
than you can in a year
by trying to get other people interested in you.
Arnold Bennett
Throughout the years of your life you will face many challenges,
remember that you can climb the highest mountain, drive through the
roughest storm, soar across the bluest sky, or even sail across the
roughest waters. It is only destined by your attitude where you will end
up in life. The most important thing is don’t let yourself get lost in the crowd.
Angela Duvall
The most reliable way of being in the right place at the right time is to prepare yourself for it. Great opportunities are everywhere, and the people who benefit the most from them are those who are the best prepared.
Preparation can be tedious and it’s not usually very exciting, yet the results it brings can be tremendously exciting. Being sufficiently prepared will open doors for you that you otherwise would never see.
The time and effort you spend learning, practicing, developing your skills and laying the groundwork for achievement may not pay off immediately. Yet those efforts spent in preparation will indeed pay off, and when they do, they’ll pay off in a big way.
Your time is never wasted when you spend it to become better prepared. Athletes win because of practice, and businesses succeed because of the skills their people have developed. Those who achieve do so because they have prepared themselves to achieve. There’s no better way to be genuinely confident than to know that you’re prepared.
Do your homework, lay the groundwork, build a solid foundation, be prepared, and become truly confident. When you’re prepared, great opportunities will virtually jump out at you and the best thing is, you’ll be ready for them.
Ralph Marston
WORK
There is a strong relationship between dreams that come true and the calluses on your hands. Your dreams will come true only if they have substance underscored by work.
Mary Kay Ash
The first step toward success is taken
when you refuse
to be a captive of the environment
in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
To keep a lamp burning
we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere and endure
in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
What you think of yourself is reflected in the way you treat others. A very effective way to raise your own level of confidence is by acting positively toward the people around you.
Rudeness toward others, whether intentional or not, is a sure sign of a lack of confidence. When you have no respect or consideration for others, it’s difficult to have much confidence in yourself.
Ironically, one of the worst things you can do for yourself is to think only of yourself. The more genuine respect, consideration and courtesy you express toward those around you, the more your own confidence will grow.
If someone is rude to you, make every effort to be sincerely pleasant and courteous in return. Just because someone else is allowing rudeness to drain away their own energy, doesn’t mean you must do the same.
Have the confidence to be courteous, and the confidence to act with genuine respect toward others. Your positive attitude and positive actions will empower you with even more confidence and energy.
Ralph Marston
Love begins at home. Everything depends on how we love each other. Do not be afraid to love until it hurts, for this is how Jesus loved. We should realize that poverty doesn’t only consist in being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be somebody for someone else to love.
Mother Theresa
Many times the things we fear most happen because we expect them to happen. Fortunately, the opposite also is true. When we expect great thngs, great things will happen! We are surrounded by abundance, and we can draw it to us by expecting it.
Mary Kay Ash
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation,
you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude,
a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
Critics argue that a woman’s appearance is only superficial. When a woman changes from an uglyu duckling into a beautiful swan, something inside changes too. OUter beauty kindles her inner beauty.
Mary Kay Ash
If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.
Chinese Proverb
The real champions are the ones who vigorously act on their dreams and work, really work, toward their goals. Thomas Edison once said that genius is 2 percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration. However, work to a winner is never drudgery. Your enthusiasm for what you are doing will propel you forward.
Mary Kay Ash
What does it really matter if the task is difficult or complicated? If it needs to be done, it needs to be done. Difficult is mainly a matter of opinion, anyway. And you have the full and complete power to change your opinion.
When there is work that must be done, you can see it as a chore or you can see it as an opportunity to achieve excellence. You can fight against it or you can put the power of your effort and creativity into getting it done.
If you’re going to be doing it anyway, does it make any sense to torment yourself about it? Imagine how much more smoothly it would go if you could simply decide that it isn’t so bad after all.
Ironically, the willingness to undertake a difficult task makes it easier. The acceptance that things can be difficult makes them less difficult.
Is there something that needs to be done, something you’ve been putting off because it seemed so difficult? Imagine how great it would be to have it done. Imagine it, then start right in on it, willingly, cheerfully and with the highest of expectations. Not only will you make it easier, you’ll also make it happen.
Ralph Marston
My friend at The Ringleader shared this amazing quote with me. It really has me thinking!
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny… ~ Maxwell Malt
You can be sure of this: A bitter root will produce bitter fruit. If we have bitterness on the inside, it’s going to affect every area of our lives. Many people harbor unforgiveness and resentment, and then they wonder why they can’t really live in victory, whey they can’t get along with other people, why they can’t be happy. They won’t realize it, but it’s because their own hearts are poisoned.
Joel Olsteen
Keep vigilant watch overy your heart; that’s where life starts.
Proverbs4:23
We would worry less about what others think of us
if we realized how seldom they do.
Ethel Barrett, writer
If you really believe you can do something,
obstacles can never make you give up.
But if you believe you cannot do it,
you will give up at the first sign of trouble.
Dare to believe that you can achieve God’s best and highest in your life.
Mary Kay Ash
Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world, it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison,
astronaut and first African american woman in space
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outward one small step at a time.
Audrey Hepburn, actress
Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It’s in our hands.
Cathy Better, editor, writer and author.
There are people who have a lot, but who do nothing for others with what they have. And there are people who have little, but who are able to do much with what they have. Use what you have today,mand don’t worry about what you don’t have. God will make up the difference of what you lack, if you will just give Him what you can.
Joyce Meyer
And God who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your resources for sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity.
2 Corinthians 9:10
All the great works of the world has been accomplished by courage, and the world’s greatest victories have been born of defeat. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. Mary Kay Ash
How many moments do you fail to enjoy simply because you don’t allow yourself to enjoy them? How many days do you go through without permitting yourself even a few minutes of pure and unrestrained joy?
Look at the people who are most effective at what they do, and you’ll find people who are enjoying themselves. Have you ever heard of anyone who became a spectacular success by being miserable? Probably not.
Enjoyment doesn’t require you to abandon your discipline, your ambition, your responsibility or your focus. There are countless ways to enjoy yourself while staying positively on track.
Enjoy life today, even though it is not perfect. The more you enjoy, the closer you’ll come to making your life into exactly what you want it to be. Enjoy your success not just after you’ve achieved it, but also while you’re working to bring it about. Enjoy where you’re going, not just where you’ve been. Enjoy the process of success, and you’ll have much more of it. Enjoy yourself each day, and those days will lead you to great things.
Ralph Marston
Instead of staying focused on what’s wrong and who’s to blame, put that same energy into changing it for the better. The more difficult and painful the situation, the more reason you have to move beyond it, and the more resolve you can develop for doing so.
The same factors which lead to resentment can just as easily and just as powerfully lead to resolve. Any time and every time you have the urge to tie yourself down with resentment, you also have the choice to move your world forward with resolve. When given such a choice, choose resolve. It will take you to much better places than you ever could hope to reach with resentment.
Ralph Marston
This is a great and wonderful day that is filled with positive possibilities. When your heart is filled with gratitude, the best of those possibilities become abundantly clear. The sincere appreciation for what you have gives value to all that you are. The blessings you enjoy are blessings precisely because you see them as such.
Consider what a real and astounding joy it is to be who you are and where you are on this day. The more you appreciate it, the more you give it, the better it will continue to become.
Ralph Marston
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but
the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does
not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
::: Nelson Mandela :::
The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
Michael E. Gerber
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back.The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Tom Morris
The fact is that what you do does indeed come back to you. How could it not? When you genuinely love, you are loved. When you praise others, you are admired. When you teach, you learn. The comfort you give serves to ease your own pain.
When you put value into life it becomes the value you experience in your life. And every moment is your opportunity to do so. You are what you live. There’s no way to cheat the process. It all comes back to you. So use each moment, each golden opportunity to make it great.
Ralph Marston
Wayne Cordeiro
You have this day, and it is more than enough. There is no one who has more possibilities waiting to be fulfilled than you have on this very day. You can choose to make full use of this day or you can choose to let it slip quickly away. You can choose to merely endure this day or you can decide to truly live it for everything it’s worth.
You have this day and you have all the great and wonderful possibilities that come along with it. Begin right now to transform it all into something of true and lasting value.
Ralph Marston